Building Dialog Systems for Tutorial Applications

Papers from the 2000 Fall Symposium

Carolyn Penstein Ros and eacute; and Reva Freedman, Program Cochairs

Technical Report FS-00-01. Published by The AAAI Press, Menlo Park, California

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Architecture

Preface / 1
Reva Freedman and Carolyn Penstein Rose

Supporting Constructive Learning with a Feedback Planner / 1
Mark G. Core, Johanna D. Moore and Claus Zinn

Dialogue Management for Embedded Training / 10
Abigail S. Gertner, Brant A. Cheikes, and Lisa A. Haverty

Intelligent Tutoring Systems Are Missing the Tutor: Building a More Strategic Dialog-Based Tutor / 14
Neil T. Heffernan and Kenneth R. Koedinger

A Dialogue-Based Architecture for Computer Aided Language Learning / 20
Jerome Lehuen

A Declarative Model of Dialog / 28
Susan W. McRoy and Syed S. Ali

Dialog Issues for a Tutor System Incorporating Expert Problem Solvers / 37
Erica Melis and Helmut Horacek

Dialog Move Generation and Conversation Management in AutoTutor / 45
Natalie K. Person, Arthur C. Graesser, Derek Harter, Eric Mathews, and the Tutoring Research Group

Task-Oriented Tutorial Dialogue: Issues and Agents / 52
Jeff Rickel, Rajaram Ganeshan, Charles Rich, Candace L. Sidner, and Neal Lesh

Spoken Language Tutorial Dialogue / 58
Beverly Park Woolf and James Allen

Natural Language Understanding

The Need for Tutorial Dialog to Support Self-Explanation / 65
Vincent A. W. M. M. Aleven and Kenneth R. Koedinger

Processing Language Input in the CIRCSIM-Tutor Intelligent Tutoring System / 74
Michael Glass

Towards Understanding Geometry Explanations / 80
Octav Popescu and Kenneth R. Koedinger

Facilitating the Rapid Development of Language Understanding Interfaces for Tutoring Systems / 87
Carolyn Penstein Rose

Natural Language Generation

Can Simple Natural Language Generation Improve Intelligent Tutoring Systems? / 96
Barbara Di Eugenio and Michael J. Trolio

Text Realization for Dialog / 105
Susan W. McRoy, Songsak Channarukul, and Syed S. Ali

Tutorial Dialogue Analysis

A Computational Model of Affective Educational Dialogues / 113
Angel de Vicente and Helen Pain

A Structured View of Dialogue Context as a Basis for Addressing the Interactive Re-Use of Educational Dialogues / 122
Carlo Iacucci and Helen Pain

A Developmental Model of Self-Regulation Skills / 131
Michiko Kayashima

Pragmatic Analysis of Teachers’ Language: Towards an Empirically Based Approach / 135
Kaska Porayska-Pomsta, Chris Mellish, and Helen Pain

Could You Repeat the Question? / 144
Florence Reeder

Demonstration Abstracts

Circuit Fix-It Shop: The Sequel--Exploring Issues in the Detection, Prevention, and Repair of Miscommunication / 148
Ronnie W. Smith

Coaching Driving Skills in a Shiphandling Trainer / 150
Bruce Roberts

Interactive Conceptual Tutoring in Atlas-Andes / 151
Carolyn Penstein Rose, Reva Freedman, Pamela Jordan, Michael Ringenberg, Antonio Roque, Kay Schulze, Robert Shelby, Stephanie Siler, Donald Treacy, Kurt VanLehn, Anders Weinstein, and Mary Wintersgill

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